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matching hosts and noconn

list Frédéric Mangeant
Mon, 19 Jun 2006 15:58:21 +0200
Message-Id: <user-2be428770d17@xymon.invalid>

Lardinois, Pierre a écrit :
Hello,

In my bb-hosts, I have a section filled with servers where the test is
noconn

	page serversNOCONN
	123.123.123.110	server1	# noconn
	123.123.123.112	server2	# noconn
	123.123.123.113	server3	# noconn

and another section where the servers have "real" tests

	page serversTESTS
	123.123.123.110 server1 	# testip !ftp !telnet

If I try to make an alert rule with the following parameter, to retrieve all
red alerts on the page serversNOCONN : 

	PAGE=serversNOCONN ....
	MAIL ....

I received no alerts. If I check with the test command : 

	bbcmd hobbitd_alert --test server3 red conn

I get this message : 

	Failed 'PAGE=serversNOCONN [...] (pagename not in include list)

My questions are : 
- Is it because hosts with noconn test only are not matched ? 
- What is the "include list"? 
- did I made something wrong somewhere ? 
  
Hi Pierre

maybe you can use the "prefer" tag in bb-hosts :

prefer
    When a single host is defined multiple time in the bb-hosts file,
    bbgen tries to guess which definition is the best to use for the
    information used on the "info" column, or for the NOPROPRED and
    other bbgen-specific settings. Host definitions that have a "noconn"
    tag or an IP of 0.0.0.0 get lower priority.

    By using the "prefer" tag you tell bbgen that this host definition
    should be used.

    Note: This only applies to hosts that are defined multiple times in
    the bb-hosts file, although it will not hurt to add it on other
    hosts as well.

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

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